14–18 Sept 2026
Europe/Vienna timezone

Instance-Level b-Hadron Tagging with DELPHI Open Data

14 Sept 2026, 16:00
20m

Speaker

Sitian Qian (NU FNAL)

Description

The release of LEP open data provides a clean test bed for developing machine-learning methods relevant to future lepton colliders. We present an effort to identify individual b hadrons in DELPHI $Z\to b\bar{b}$ events using an approach inspired by panoptic segmentation. Rather than assigning a single flavour label to a jet, the model classifies reconstructed particles and associates them with the decay products of each b hadron. We propose a design of conversion to EDM4HEP format for DELPHI open-data, the formulation of particle-to-hadron assignment as a segmentation problem, and initial tagging studies. This work explores archival DELPHI data as a benchmark for instance-level heavy-flavour reconstruction.

Author

Sitian Qian (NU FNAL)

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